Teams playing Capture the Flagg are no longer being subtle. Their availability reports run longer and longer. Missing superstars can mean value in their replacements, though, as people underestimate how good an NBA bench may be.
Those thoughts help fuel a full set of Pick6 NBA picks for Sunday, March 9.
DraftKings NBA Pick6 Picks for today
The first three picks are our favorite plays for a 3-player lineup. If you want to play a 6-player lineup, use all six stat projections below.
🔼 DeMar DeRozan more than 25.5 points
🔼 Anthony Edwards more than 28.5 points
🔼 Bryce Sensabaugh more than 14.5 points
🔼 Andre Drummond more than 11.5 rebounds
🔼 Kyle Filipowski more than 15.5 points
🔼 Jaden McDaniels more than 14.5 points
Click on each pick to read full analysis.
DraftKings NBA Pick6 fantasy basketball lineup for March 9
DeMar DeRozan 25.5 points: MORE
The Sacramento Kings are not playing Capture the Flagg. Are they? Domantas Sabonis and Malik Monk missing tonight’s tilt at Los Angeles hints at a tanking effort, but Sacramento would need to sink five games in the standings to miss the Play-In Tournament, so that effort would be too little and too late.
More likely, the Kings recognize their Play-In status is sealed, so easing into some health should help their postseason prospects. DeMar DeRozan should play his usual game tonight, and with Monk and Sabonis not taking their shots, DeRozan should clear a point total that he already exceeds on plenty of occasions.
Anthony Edwards 28.5 points: LESS
The Minnesota Timberwolves have found health in recent weeks with the returns of Donte DiVincenzo, Julius Randle and Mike Conley, which has lessened Anthony Edwards’ workload. He can still pour in plenty of points, but in his last six games, he scored in the teens in four.
And Minnesota won three of those four games. Chances to enjoy lopsided scores are helping the Timberwolves use a bigger rotation, one that they have the players to fill. That has come at Edwards’s expense, shooting 15 times or fewer in those four games. Tonight should follow that pattern as double-digit favorites against the shorthanded San Antonio Spurs.
Bryce Sensabaugh 14.5 points: MORE
The Utah Jazz are making sure to hold onto a Bottom-3 record in the NBA, currently with a one-game edge on the Pelicans. Utah has benched Walker Kessler tonight for rest, one of the clearest tanking moves of this March. Starting Isaiah Collier and Collin Sexton in the backcourt is fair enough, but the Jazz have utterly short-circuited their frontcourt.
Enter Bryce Sensabaugh. Anyone who followed him at Ohio State knows Sensabaugh can score with ease. He should have plenty of usage tonight with Kessler joining a long injury list that includes Lauri Markkanen, Jordan Clarkson, and John Collins.
Andre Drummond 11.5 rebounds: MORE
Kessler’s absence should also boost Andre Drummond’s rebounding total. Yes, it is 2025, and Andre Drummond is still tracking down double-digit rebounds on a nightly basis. Three times in his last four games, the 13-year veteran has found at least 10 rebounds. The exception came at Minnesota, when Drummond played fewer than 20 minutes after collecting five rebounds in the first six minutes.
Utah simply will not have anyone in its frontcourt to cut down on Drummond’s chances tonight.
Kyle Filipowski 15.5 points: MORE
Continue to focus on Utah’s frontcourt. He does not get much attention as a rookie drafted in the second round. Playing for the Jazz does not help that cause.
A truth: NBA bench players deserve more credit. They are better than most realize. Kyle Filipowski has scored 17+ points in each of his last three games and in five of his last 10 games. Utah is not benching its rookie. It is letting him prove himself on the court.
With Kessler sidelined, Filipowski will have more of an opportunity to continue to prove himself tonight.
Jaden McDaniels 14.5 points: LESS
Jaden McDaniels’ offensive surge the last two months may have reconfigured Minnesota’s long-term planning. He has revealed a mid-range game that has flummoxed opposing defenses, a newfound offensive side on a defensive ace. McDaniels could genuinely be the third piece of the Timberwolves’ future.
Not in the short-term, however. Julius Randle’s playmaking reduces McDaniels’s role. In 13 games without Randle this season, McDaniels has averaged 18.5 points on 14.8 shots per game. Alongside Randle this season, the fifth-year forward has averaged 11.0 points on 9.2 shots per game.
Even with McDaniels’s revealed mid-range game, doubting him to score these days makes sense simply because of the reduced opportunity.
Jon Metler's DraftKings NBA Pick6 lineup for today
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